NGINX 1.4 Supports SPDY, Gunzip Filter

Version 1.4.0 of the lightweight open-source nginx web-server has been released with several new features.

Highlights from today's nginx 1.4.0 release include support for proxying of WebSocket connections, OCSP stapling, an experimental Google SPDY module, and a Gunzip content encoding filter. There's also various other changes making up this major nginx web-server release.

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